'An honest rough heartiness Mr. Lewes will give you; yet in case you have the misfortune to remark that the heartiness might be quite as honest if it were less rough, would you not run the risk of being termed a sentimentalist or a dreamer?

He'd previously argued that the "bad" businesses would wither away without pulling down the rest of the company; now he worries that Murdoch, who isn't known as a sentimentalist but is known for his love of newspapers, will prop up his money-losers for too long: